The Russian Navy will conduct exercises off the coast of Syria

Russian warships will conduct large-scale military maneuvers in the Eastern Mediterranean off the coast of Syria at the end of January.

“One of the key tasks of the group’s maneuvers will be to simulate tactical episodes for the landing of several units of the naval infantry of the Navy, the Airborne Forces, as well as military equipment from four landing ships of the Baltic and Black Sea fleets,” a source in the General Staff told Interfax . today

A separate topic of the exercises, according to him, will be working out the actions of the Russian landing in the reverse order - loading personnel and equipment onto ships from the coast.

Landing operations will be practiced from the Kaliningrad, Alexander Shabalin, Novocherkassk and Saratov ships of the ocean zone. From the Black Sea pair (the last two), “units of the 108th Airborne Assault Kuban Cossack Regiment from the Novorossiysk Airborne Assault (Mountain) Division” said the agency’s interlocutor.

Fire cover for landings from the sea will be carried out by a strike group consisting of the missile cruiser Moskva, the anti-submarine ship of the Severomorsk project, and the patrol ships Smetlivy and Yaroslav Mudry. “The ships will practice artillery firing at coastal and surface targets. The air defense of the detachment from low-flying air targets and missiles will be carried out, ”the source specified.